1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

What makes you think we can do this? There will be other teams out there, trained soldiers and spies, people with years of experience.""This isn't a job for trained soldiers and spies. It's a job for thugs and thieves. Van Eck knows it, and that's why he brought us in.

Never has a gift for pining,” Nikolai said. “Though I do like to show off my profile by staring mournfully out of windows.

I think I was a cat in another life, because all I want is to lie around sleeping in the world’s biggest sunbeam.

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

She was the Queen of Mourning, and in its depths, she would never drown.

Hmm,” she said noncommittally, pretending to examine one of her knives, determined to ignore that grin. Kaz was not a giddy boy smiling and making future plans with her. He was a dangerous player who was always working an angle. Always, she reminded herself firmly. Inej kept her eyes averted, shuffling a stack of papers into a pile on the desk as Kaz stripped out of his vest and shirt. She wasn’t sure if she was flattered or insulted that he didn’t seem to give a second thought to her presence.

I’m perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.

Kaz flexed his fingers in his gloves. How did you survive the Barrel? When they took everything from you, you found a way to make something from nothing.

In the Barrel, we don’t trade in safety,” Kaz said, the abraded burn of his voice carrying over the crowd. “There’s only strength and weakness. You don’t ask for respect. You earn it.” You don’t ask for forgiveness. You earn it.